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every bramble, and which he did not fail to mention as a very 

 important part of the happiness of a country life.' It was unfor- 

 tunate that the poet should have rested his hopes on almost the 

 only common British bird not found in Wales, and had Dr. Johnson 

 been anything of a naturalist, he would probably have mentioned 

 this incident in his ' Vanity of Human Wishes.' " 



